Thunderstorms and heavy downpour was present when a Miami Air International Boeing 737-800 skidded off runway 10 at Jacksonville naval air station in Florida. The aircraft came to a stop in the St Johns river which is situated 1,200ft off the eastern end of the 9,000ft runway. The presence of thunderstorms, heavy rain and reduced visibility, as well as possible gusting winds was forecasted at the time of the accident according to metrological data.Miami Air says its flight 293 was operating between Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and the Jacksonville naval air station when it “departed the runway surface” during landing. “All on board evacuated the aircraft with no loss of life,” it adds.

Aeroflot has confirmed casualties from the Murmansk-bound aircraft which returned to Moscow Sheremetyevo for an emergency landing. The Sukhoi Superjet 100, operating flight SU1492 which departed at 18:02 local time. Aeroflot says the aircraft was “forced to return” to Sheremetyevo “for technical reasons”. It indicates the aircraft suffered an “ignition of the engines” after it landed. The aircraft came to a complete stop with a severe fire aft of the wings. Aeroflot says the fire has been extinguished. Moscow Sheremetyevo airport's operator states that the aircraft made a "hard landing", after which a fire broke out. There were 73 passengers and five crew members on board the aircraft, the crew of which "reported a malfunction" and opted to return to the airport where it landed at 18:32.
“There are casualties,” Aeroflot admits. “The number is being determined. Emergency medical care is being provided to all those who need it.” With the aircraft in flames, passengers evacuated the aircraft through the emergency slides.

Alitalia is busy with negotiations to become an associate member of the new transatlantic joint venture being forged by Delta Air Lines and Air France-KLM. The associate membership will change the way revenues are split among the four pr members – Air France, Delta, KLM and Virgin Atlantic Airways – and the Italy-based SkyTeam Alliance carrier while leaving their joint operations across the Atlantic unchanged, says Alitalia chief business officer Fabio Lazzerini at an event to mark the launch of the airline's new Washington DC service today. "Nothing is changing from an operational point of view – from a commercial point of view it's just changing the way we remunerate each other on our flights," he says. For example, Alitalia is planning its new flight to Washington Dulles from Rome Fiumicino with its SkyTeam partners, says Lazzerini. The airline will schedule the route five-times weekly with an Airbus A330-200 through the summer and three-times weekly this winter. These joint ventures are lucrative commercial agreements that allow carriers to operate as one in specified markets.